("Steven Barnes" wrote)
Interesting. My ex-wife is leader of my daughter's brownie troop. I would
love nothing more, than to give a little talk about aviation during a
field
trip to the airport. Let the girls see/touch/sit in the plane. Hadn't
considered any rides, due to too many nervous moms to deal with. I wasn't
sure where to even look up any info on how to make a proper presentation.
I
would never have thought some manual would prohibit it.


I just gave a Golden Wings Museum (google) tour for a group of 6th and 2nd
graders on Friday. Our normal(?) tours are for high school and college age
kids, mostly aviation programs.

We had an hour to fill (about 2 minutes per plane) plus they got to climb up
in the Bushmaster Tri-Motor - two at a time.

I hadn't had elementary students on a tour before. What to do, what to do,
what to do?

I skipped the plane names, specs, and historical significance, etc and
instead pointed out similarities and differences between the planes, took
questions a mile a minute, and came back to the same plane more than once -
like a treasure hunt for stuff that we were learning on the tour. Don't know
about the kids, but I sure had fun. Actually they had a great time too.


Montblack